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[wooks]

Oh, look at what I've stumbled upon.

Spoiler: Manger Screen (click to show/hide)

[LarsGerhard]

The existence of something the game indicates to you from a manager screen or forge shouldn't be a spoiler.

These are procedurally generated metals new to 40.0x. They are mostly an adventurer mode thing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Divine_metal

[Orange Wizard]

Yeah, that's a thing. The adjective metals are intended to be extra tiers between steel and adamantine. It's not really a bug, because those screens will display candy and slade and the like anyway.

[LarsGerhard]

Though note that they are not strictly inferior to adamantine.

[wooks]

How do you figure out what is better at what then? Lots of absurd tests in fortress mode?

[Orange Wizard]

Memory hacking. If you can find the raws of the metal you should be able to reference with adamantine/steel and see where the numbers fall.
I'm afraid I don't know too much about this kind of thing myself, but someone down in the modding boards should be able to help you.

[LarsGerhard]

It's also, you know, on the wiki.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Divine metals are heavier and sharper than adamantine but don't have as good yield or fracture values. Either metal is quite overkill against actual foes you will run into. I believe adamantine is generally favoured more overall but divine metals will be superior blunt weapons. It's worth noting that you basically won't accidentally run into divine metals.

If you want to test this stuff, that's what the object testing arena is for.

[wooks]

I was under the impression that the properties of the metal were also psuedo-random?

[i2amroy]

Memory hacking. If you can find the raws of the metal you should be able to reference with adamantine/steel and see where the numbers fall.
I'm afraid I don't know too much about this kind of thing myself, but someone down in the modding boards should be able to help you.

Just set the game to not compress the save files and then (IIRC) open up World.dat in a text editor and look through it for them.

[samanato]

I was under the impression that the properties of the metal were also psuedo-random?

They all appear to be functionally identical.  The only differences I could find were the names and the spheres, which associate the metal to a deity.